I walked in to the theatre last night, and was struck by the utter transformation of the space.
Up to this point we have had to rehearse on a stage set and ready for other shows - old time melodramas, Shakespeare's As You Like It, and a children's Circus. Now the stage is ours.
Elements of the world have come in from the storage stables, from the craftiness of our designers, from our builders, from our painters, and from the world of our play. Represented on stage in one gloomy mess we have filth, disease, darkness, the church, god, and the theatre all there, all present, all working together to create this world of Red Noses. Under the eerie glow of the stage lights, this set beckons me into the world the actors have been inhabiting for the past month in their minds,. It is now an outward physical reality. I cannot wait to see action on this stage.
Up to this point we have had to rehearse on a stage set and ready for other shows - old time melodramas, Shakespeare's As You Like It, and a children's Circus. Now the stage is ours.
Elements of the world have come in from the storage stables, from the craftiness of our designers, from our builders, from our painters, and from the world of our play. Represented on stage in one gloomy mess we have filth, disease, darkness, the church, god, and the theatre all there, all present, all working together to create this world of Red Noses. Under the eerie glow of the stage lights, this set beckons me into the world the actors have been inhabiting for the past month in their minds,. It is now an outward physical reality. I cannot wait to see action on this stage.
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